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[quote=Anonymous]13:09 here.  I remember it being a really rough time for my parents, because they felt like they were terrible parents, and were really beating themselves up over it.  Both my parents are professionals with graduate degrees, worked hard to ensure that we always lived in nice neighborhoods with strong schools, they saved enough money to put both of us through private college even though that wasn't always easy, gave us music lessons, sports, tutoring, any kind of "enrichment," educational camps, read to us when we were little and sent us to nice preschools, emphasized academics, took us to museums, were heavily involved in our lives, etc.  They were conscientious about trying to walk the line between giving us the best start in life and spoiling us, and we certainly had boundaries growing up.  Everything that upper middle class parents think they are "supposed" to do.  And even with all that, my brother still had issues finding his way.

It seems to have all worked out at the end of the day, but it involved a lot of patience on my parents' part and doing things differently for him than they had for me, since we have different personalities and needs.  So I would say, don't beat yourself up over it, just try to take things one step at a time, figure out what the problem is, and figure out what she needs to succeed.[/quote]

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